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Education And Revolutions. Why Do Revolutionary Uprisings Take Violent Or Nonviolent Forms?

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  • Ilya A. Medvedev

    (National Research University Higher School of Economics)

  • Vadim V. Ustyuzhanin

    (National Research University Higher School of Economics)

  • Andrey V. Korotayev

    (National Research University Higher School of Economics)

Abstract

Is there a relationship between education and the type of revolutionary action – violent or nonviolent? Past studies found a positive relationship between the education and nonviolence, but the influence that education produces on the form that revolution takes has not yet been explored. This paper examines it at a cross-national level with an analysis of 370 revolutionary episodes recorded between 1950 and 2019. By using logistic regression and our own index, we fully confirmed the hypothesis: education is a strong and consistently significant predictor of the form of revolutionary movement

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  • Ilya A. Medvedev & Vadim V. Ustyuzhanin & Andrey V. Korotayev, 2021. "Education And Revolutions. Why Do Revolutionary Uprisings Take Violent Or Nonviolent Forms?," HSE Working papers WP BRP 81/PS/2021, National Research University Higher School of Economics.
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    • D74 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances; Revolutions

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